This 1978 pre and post apocalyptic novel written in the height of the Cold War is a unique creation, both witty and horrifying.

Not only are Kalki and his chronicler, Teddy, among Vidal’s most memorable literary inventions, but the sense of a dying world is here rendered with a hallucinatory skill that recalls 1984 and Brave New World.

Excellent condition.
First Edition?

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Kalki

1954 book about ants written by John Crompton, who wrote books about nature “by the layman for the layman.”

Ways of the Ant

This 1962 first novel of Romanian screenwriter Titus Popovici is set in Romania and Transylvania in 1944 in the climatic period of World War II. The protagonist Andrei Sabin is a high school student disillusioned with the war and the fascist government.

The author depicts the evolution of a young, honest intellectual who, after much wavering joins the patriots in their struggle for the freedom of the Romanian people, and who participates in setting up the free society following the war.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Stranger

First Edition of Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume II, 1970. Interior in like new condition. Cover in excellent condition. Dust jacket in fair condition.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume II

3 Volumes from series McCall Collection of Modern Art. Audubon, Homer, Whistler and 19th Century America; Modern French Masters, The Impressionists; Cezanne and the Post-Impressionists. Many full color photos of artworks.

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

19th Century America, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists 

McCall Collection of Modern Art, 3 Volumes

Larry McMurtry

A novel set in the American Ild West by Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning writer Larry McMurtry 
Some minor dents on top edge, otherwise excellent condition 

Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Telegraph Days

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January 1966, February 1966, March 1966, December 1969, February 1969
James Bond’s Weird World of Inventions; Why I Believe in Flying Saucers; Comparing Ford-Chevy-Plymouth Wagons; New Revolver Like Steam Engine; Smothers Brothers - Crazy for Wheels; Citroen Mehari - France’s Answer to the Dune Buggy; BMW 2002 - Supercar, Bavarian Style; Across the Atlantic in a 20 foot Open Boat; How We Film Under the Sea by Jacques Cousteau; Huston - New Miracle Plastic with a Myriad of Uses; Corvette-Powered Family Car from Italy; Three Luxury Cars with Modest Price Tags; What You Should Know About Anti-Smog Devices; How Smart Can Home Appliances Get

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Popular Science (bundle of 5)

September 1957, December 1958, May 1961, November 1962, May 1965
The New Edsel, Mercury & Lincoln; 6 Ways to Sharpen Your Memory; Science Probes Monkey Mother Love; All About the Luxury Loaded Edsel; Are We Safe Against Russian Subs?; Missile Gets a Supersonic Boost; Architect’s House Uses No Wood; Beating Russia’s Big Rockets; How a Coffee Machine Works; U.S. Cavemen 10,000 Years Ago; Instant Orange Juice; Jet Pack for Astronauts; Mustang- A V-4 for Fun; Pleated Roof for Indoor Stadium; What’s New in Electronics; Copter Beats Path Through Fire 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

1959 New Car Edition, also includes: Those Amazing Fluorocarbons, Babies to Order?, All-in-One Mobile Home, New Gun Takes Plastic Bullets, How to Cut Patterns in Hardboard, [Making a] Coffee Table in Modern Free Form, vintage ads, etc.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Annual New Car Section

Popular Science Magazine, January 1959

1954 Auto Show Edition also includes: Conveyor Belts to Carry People, How Color TV Works, How the Missing Link was Found, Young Californian’s Prize House, Now Anyone Can Build with Pipe, New Tricks for Building Walls, vintage ads, etc.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

1954 Auto Show Edition

Popular Science Magazine February 1954

1955 Auto Show edition, also contains: “Rocket Car to Hurl Man Over Cliff,Church Design Goes Modern, Building Modern Home Accessories, Tips on Shooting Basketball Photos, A Drawing Board in the Modern Mode, Tractor Replaces the Sled Dog, vintage ads, etc.
* half of one page cut out


1955 Auto Show Edition

Popular Science Magazine, December 1954

Issue includes 1957 auto buying guide, “facts and figures on all 1957 models,” “Our Push Button A-Bomb is Ready,” “Will Bomb Dust Endanger Your Health,” “Rear View TV Gives Car Hindsight,” “Seven Tips on Making Cabinets,” vintage ads, etc. 

Car Buying Guide

Popular Science Magazine, February 1957

Daniel Howarth

Featuring children's own words and heart-warming pictures, this board book, this is the perfect book for children to share with Grandma!

Why I Love My Grandma

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David Cruise

Alison Griffiths

An epic novel that tells the history of Vancouver through the lives of a series of characters, beginning with in the last Ice Age. Signed by author David Cruise. 

A Novel

Vancouver is a startlingly beautiful city of dreams and desires. Its mountains, rivers, ocean, and islands are arresting to the eye and exciting to the soul. The long and varied human history of this magical place is irresistibly grand and eventful. Vancouver -- the city, the land -- has al-ways been a place of appetites, of licenses offered and liberties taken. Since the time the humans crossed the Bering Strait and journeyed down the Pacific Coast seeking a fabled land of plenty, Vancouver, caught between soaring mountains and a vast ocean, has been a destiny for the spirit. Beginning in the dying era of the last Ice Age, Vancouver unfolds with the story of Tooke, the last survivor of a Siberian people and ancestor to the first nations of Vancouver. Moving through history in a rich, ever-expanding tapestry, Vancouver reveals a fascinating cast of characters. Long before recorded history, a young girl faces the terrifying prospect of marriage into a faraway tribe. Hundreds of years later, a Georgian cartographer aboard a Spanish exploration fleet nearly meets his end at the hands of her descendants. In the passing of the next centuries, a Scottish trapper becomes the reluctant leader of a fur-trading outpost on Vancouver's shores, and a Chinese peasant boy seeks an elusive fortune. The burgeoning colony of Vancouver lures a turn-of-the-century British adventurer and a German noble. In modern times, a superstar singer and film actress meets her destiny in the form of a young native girl struggling to free herself from the city's impoverished downtown eastside. The characters of Vancouver are all vastly different, yet they all share something -- a powerful attraction to a grand and giving land. Their stories intertwine, touching the extremes of human experience: riches, bravery, betrayal, crime, passion, and forbidden love.

Vancouver

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Marcus Sakey

When his brother is murdered, Jason Palmer finds himself protecting his eight-year-old nephew from two killers with a mysterious agenda, while his Chicago South Side neighborhood erupts in a bloodbath of gang warfare and high-level political corruption.

At the City's Edge

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Help Me Be Good Book

A Children’s Book About Tattling

Diane Morgan

Recipes for over 60 party dips made with low-calorie and low-fat ingredients without sacrificing rich, robust flavors. Includes: Romesco spread, Artichoke dip, Pistachio pesto, Parmesan spinach dip, Green mango salsa, Tomatillo guacamole, Olive and almond tapenade, Fava bean dip, Lentil and roasted garlic spread, Thai style spicy pork dip, Baked crab dip, Herbed cheddar cheese straws 

60 Recipes for Dips, Spreads, Chips, and Salsas on the Lighter Side of Delicious 

We all love dipswe just hate what they do to our hips. That's why snack lovers everywhere will be drooling over the scrumptious spreads in this collection of low-calorie, low-fat party dips. Featuring healthful, guilt-free twists on all the fun, flavorful classics from dips and spreads to tapenades and salsasthese festive treats are all about healthy indulgences that are heavy on rich, robust flavors. Complete with nutrition facts for each recipe, party planningadvice, and do-ahead tips that make preparation a breeze, Skinny Dips makes it a snap to dip and be fit.

Skinny Dips

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Bella Millett

Two selections from the Ancrene Wisse (Guide for Anchoresses) and three works from the Katherine Group, Hali Meidhad (A Letter on Virginity), Sawles Warde (The Custody of the Soul), and Seinte Margarete (Saint Margaret). 

Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse

The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses written in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related religious works of the `Katherine Group', offer a vivid insight into the religious life of the time, and their rich and varied prose style blends Latin and native English stylistic traditions with remarkable skill and assurance. The difficulty of their language, however, has made them largely inaccessible except to experts in Middle English, and this edition is designed to introduce them to a wider audience, including undergraduates with limited experience of Middle English and specialists in other disciplines, particularly history, theology, and women's studies. It provides a representative selection (the last two parts of Ancrene Wisse, and three complete works from the Katherine Group, Hali Meithhad, Sawles Warde, and Seinte Margarete) in new and readable critical texts, with a general introduction, notes, a select glossary, and interleavedtranslations.

Medieval English Prose for Women

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Julie Campbell

In this 1954 mystery novel, 13 year-old Trixie investigates a “mysterious visitor,” a long-lost uncle of her new friend Diana Lynch

Trixie Belden #4

Trixie Belden and the other members of the Bob-White club try to learn the reason for the sudden appearance of Diana Lynch's long-lost uncle.

The Mysterious Visitor

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This volume contains the two most important essays on the logical foundations of the number system by the famous German mathematician J.W.R. Dedekind. The contents of these essays belong to the foundations of mathematics, and will be welcomed by those who are prepared to look into the somewhat subtle meanings of the members of our number system. As a major work of an important mathematician and every teacher and historian of mathematics. 

1963 republication of original 1901 translation from the German

Continuity and Irrational Numbers; The Nature and Meaning of Numbers

Essays on the Theory of Numbers

Luci Shaw

Poems by American Christian poet Luci Shaw

Jean Jansen: “These are poems that look directly into the eye of pain. And, as before, Luci Shaw finds in nature her chief metaphors. Heron, trout, and forest are vehicles for both doubt and hope. Like the poets of all time, she questions and searches, but unlike most contemporary poets, she finds resting places. With her ‘lovely loose exactness’ (her description of Queeen Ann’s lace), Luci Shaw moves the reader toward healing and wholeness. 




Writing the River

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Nora Harlow

This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the challenges and opportunities of gardening in Mediterranean climates, with special reference to northern California’s San Francisco Bay Region. The core of the book is a catalog of more than 650 plants suited to regions with mild, usually wet winters and dry, often hot summers. These plants thrive with moderate to no summer irrigation when established. 

Many of the 542 color photographs show plants in garden settings to suggest attractive and compatible plant combinations. Lists suggest plants for special situations, such as hot sites, dryish shade, small gardens, and clay soils. 

Chapters on landscape design and maintenance inspire readers to make gardens that use little water and no harmful chemicals, with a focus on building healthy soil. Practical steps to successful design are supplemented with ideas for designing with microclimate, attracting wildlife, and fire safety. 

Gardening. Environmental Studies. Photographs by Saxon Holt. Illustrations by Richard Pembroke. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the challenges and opportunities of gardening in Mediterranean climates, with special reference to northern California's San Francisco Bay Region. The core of the book is a catalog of more than 650 plants suited to regions with mild, usually wet winters and dry, often hot summers. These plants thrive with moderate to no summer irrigation when established, require little or no maintenance, and are reasonably available from nurseries, botanic gardens, native plant sales, or specialty seed suppliers. Many of the 542 color photographs show plants in garden settings to suggest attractive and compatible plant combinations. Summary charts provide information on each plant, such as bloom time, needs for water and sun, and preferences for coastal or inland microclimates. Lists suggest plants for special situations, such as hot sites, dryish shade, small gardens, and clay soils. Chapters on landscape design and maintenance inspire readers to make gardens that use little water and no harmful chemicals, with a focus on building healthy soil. Practical steps to successful design are supplemented with ideas for designing with microclimate, attracting wildlife, and fire safety. Sidebars by local experts discuss weather, natural landscapes, design solutions, and gardening with recycled water. "A valuable resource for climate-compatible gardening in the San Franciso Bay Area that will also be of interest to gardeners in other parts of the world with a similar seasonal pattern of winter rain and dry summers. This book will occupy a prominent place in my library for many years to come." Katherine Greenberg, president Mediterranean Garden Society "This book is beautifully designed with abundant photographs of plants, many in garden settings, and it is packed with the kind of information gardeners need for their own special situations. Simply stunning Bravo " Phyllis M. Faber, editor University of California Press"

Plants and Landscapes for Summer-Dry Gardens of the San Francisco Region

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A classic children’s book by a classic children’s author of the twentieth century. Garis is sometimes credited as being responsible for the popularization of the term “bedtime stories.” 
(c) 1955

Uncle Wiggily and His Friends 

Marvin Heiferman

Carole Kismaric

Nancy, Frank, and Joe were breakthrough characters, the first teenage detectives to star in their own book series. This book tracks the growth of teen power, too, from screaming bobby-soxers to antiwar protesters and shows how the rise of a youth culture redefined values and transformed American life. For anyone who grew up reading the classic mysteries, this book offers an absorbing way to connect again with the hyperactive teen sleuths who taught young readers that being a teenager could be a thrill-a-minute adventure. 

The bestselling authors of "Growing Up with Dick and Jane" take on the all-time popular teen detectives Nancy Drew and Frank and Joe Hardy in this smart, insightful, thoroughly entertaining look at what it means to be a teenager. 180 photos, 75 in color.

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McCall Collection of Modern Art, 3 Volumes

Larry McMurtry

Telegraph Days

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Popular Science (bundle of 5)

Ralph H. Flynn

Popular Science Magazine, January 1959

Godfrey Hammond

Popular Science Magazine February 1954

Godfrey Hammond

Popular Science Magazine, December 1954

Ralph R. Flynn

Popular Science Magazine, February 1957

Daniel Howarth

Why I Love My Grandma

David Cruise; Alison Griffiths

Vancouver

Marcus Sakey

At the City's Edge

Joy Berry

A Children’s Book About Tattling

Diane Morgan

Skinny Dips

Bella Millett

Medieval English Prose for Women

Julie Campbell

The Mysterious Visitor

Dedekind, Richard

Essays on the Theory of Numbers

Luci Shaw

Writing the River

Nora Harlow

Plants and Landscapes for Summer-Dry Gardens of the San Francisco Region

Howard R. Garis

Uncle Wiggily and His Friends

Marvin Heiferman; Carole Kismaric

The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys

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